Design

Visual Programming in 3-D

By Marc Najork, December 01, 1995

Many current development environments call themselves "visual" but true visual-programming languages are built around executable graphics. To examine this concept, Marc presents Cube, a 3-D visual-programming language that supports recursion, function mapping, and user-defined types.

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